Publisher's Synopsis
"The New All-too-True-Blue History of Vermont" is a creative history of Vermont (or an "alternative" history, if you will). Events that are covered include, but are not limited to: TIME IMMEMORIAL - Cambria Blown Sky-High 1535 -- French Explorer Cartier-Bresson Photographs Vermont 1666 -- Fort on the Isle LaMotte the Hoople 1724 - Fort Dum-and-Dummer 1770 - Ethan Allen Forms the Green Mountain Boys 1777 - Vermont Becomes an Independent Republic 1812 - Merino Sheep Introduced 1823 - Twilight Gets a Degree 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act Rejected 1864 - St. Alphonzo's Raid 1892 -- Kipling Moves In 1903 -- Vermonter Makes First Cross-Country Automobile Trip 1913 -- "Pollyanna" 1919 -- Frost Comes to Vermont 1927 - Great Vermont Flood 1932 -- "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1945 -- "Justin Morgan Had a Horse" 1972 -- "A Day No Pigs Would Croak" 1978 -- Ben & Jerry in Burlington 2014 -- "Wandering Homeless" Most of the events have explanatory images to help you visualize the history lessons.
